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Quote from ‘Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII’

Term: 
Likeness
Quote: 

… I must call your attention to the differences there are in the manner in which different representations stand for their objects. In the first place there are likenesses or copies - such as statues, pictures, emblems, hieroglyphics, and the like. Such representations stand for their objects only so far as they have an actual resemblance to them - that is agree with them in some characters. The peculiarity of such representations is that they do not determine their objects - they stand for anything more or less; for they stand for whatever they resemble and they resemble everything more or less.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1866). Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII. MS [W] 129; MS [R] 356, 345, 919, 1571
Date: 
1866
References: 
W 1:467
Citation: 
‘Likeness’ (pub. 18.08.13-08:59). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-lowell-lectures-logic-science-or-induction-and-hypothesis-lecture-vii-0.
Posted: 
Aug 18, 2013, 08:59 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:55 by Commens Admin